About us
Cultivate Capital was formed by an experience team of financial professionals to help companies raise capital online. Securities offerings through Regulation A, Regulation CF and Regulation D online are far different from raising funds through venture capitalists, private equity firms and from lending sources like traditional banks. Let our team help you through the process in a legal and compliant manner.
Tess is amazing. She is incredible at handling huge numbers of investors in equity crowdfunding offerings and treating each one with professionalism and respect, whether they invested $100 or $1,000,000.
James Watt
Founder, BrewDog
Tess Hottenroth was the investment banking representative for BrewDog USA, Inc.'s Regulation A offerings.
Tess is the most unique investment banker I've ever met. She genuinely cares about her clients, each individual investor, and manages securities offerings involving thousands of participants with remarkable professionalism. I highly recommend Tess to anyone raising capital through equity crowdfunding. On top of her expertise, she and her team bring an energy and enthusiasm that make them the most enjoyable investment banking team to work with!
Chris Yelich
Real Estate Developer, Brooks Street
Founder, Goldenseed
Our Team
Tess Hottenroth
Tess brings nearly a decade of hands-on experience in equity crowdfunding and alternative capital markets, with a background that uniquely bridges regulatory fluency and startup flexibility. After entering the industry shortly after the JOBS Act passed, she became one of the first operators to specialize in Reg A and Reg CF offerings and helping companies navigate these newly opening pathways to capital.
Over the past several years, she has supported some of the most visible and highest-volume crowdfunding campaigns in the U.S., including managing all three of BrewDog USA's Reg A offerings. With expertise in designing scalable, compliance-ready offering workflows, Tess focuses on building infrastructure that supports issuers directly, prioritizing operational execution over traditional gatekeeping models and designing designs capital structures that work for the real world — not just the compliance checklist.
Tess currently holds Series 63, 79, 82, 24, and 28 licenses.
Keith Bliss
Keith is a highly seasoned senior level executive with over 35 years of experience in global financial services. He has been involved in most facets of the broad industry from commercial lending, to financial software and consulting, to equity and options execution, direct private investments, investment banking, asset-backed financing, compliance and many others. Keith's experience has allowed him to work with C level executives in banking, brokerage, asset managers, hedge funds, private banks, private equity, and family offices.
Audrhei Encinas
Audrhei brings more than nine years of experience in equity crowdfunding to Cultivate Capital. She originally worked with equity crowdfunding success story BrewDog, who raised more than $100 million worldwide from more than 200,000 investors in multiple countries with multiple online securities offerings. At BrewDog, Audrhei dealt with large numbers of shareholders from an investor relations standpoint, which gave her a great appreciation and education in what securities transactions are like from the investor side.
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